Firefighter sentenced for shooting at Moyers Corners fire station

Syracuse, NY - A Moyers Corners firefighter who got drunk and accidentally shot a fellow firefighter at the fire station was sentenced today to five years' probation.

Stanley Memmelaar, 27, of Clay, offered an apology to victim Tyler Drake and the Moyers Corners Fire Department as he stood before state Supreme Court Justice John Brunetti.

The 21-year-old Drake wrote a letter to the court, that was read aloud in court by his father, in which he detailed how his life has been changed by the shooting and questioned the leniency of the penalty Memmelaar was facing.

Brunetti then went ahead and imposed the probation sentence as agreed to when Memmelaar pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless endangerment.